Talk:TYPE (DOS command)

Important difference between Unix cat and DOS type

If you specify more than one file name with cat, then the contents of each file will be joined with a newline:

$ cat foo
foo
$ cat bar
bar
$ cat foo bar
foo
bar
$

If you specify more than one file name with type, then the contents of each file are preceded with a newline, the file name, and two more newlines (the additional lines of whitespace you see before the prompts below are not from type's output). Then each of these is joined with a newline, which is why you see a blank line between "foo" and "bar.txt":

C:\>type foo.txt
foo

C:\>type bar.txt
bar

C:\>type foo.txt bar.txt

foo.txt


foo

bar.txt


bar

C:\>

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Christopher C. Parker ^{t c} 18:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)